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Willa Mercier

Willa Mercier

Willa had been plotting her revenge for some time. Plenty of prospects had crossed her mind. She’d even picked up a pack of ton tongue toffee’s before thinking they were too recognisable. If she was going to get Aiden she was going to get him good. She would get her revenge for the cruel trick he’d played on her

She had been exiting a book store when she’d seen it, a large colourful display proudly announcing the joke fireworks which were held inside. They had all sorts, fireworks that let of a rancid stench, firework that backfired, even a firework that would cause its user to erupt in boils, something Willa thought was a little mean. She picked one which would cover it user in glitter which would take a few days to completely disappear. Aiden would be pink and sparkly and hopefully would learn not to set fireworks off on people in the future.

The next challenge was how to get Aiden to agree to meet her to set them off. She cornered him after one of their shared lessons with a false apology for her anger during their last encounter. She’d told him she’d brought him a firework to make up for it and asked him to meet her at the lake that night.

She now waited nervously, hoping Aiden would turn up and not simply alert a teacher to her presence here after curfew. She felt like the fireworks were a beacon in her bag drawing every responsible person, adult or prefect, to her. She’d brought a real firework for herself to light, wanting to actually enjoy the show this time. Both were the classic red and gold colour the fake one only distinguishable by the dab of glitter on its tip. Unless Aiden decided to carefully inspect his firework before igniting it he shouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

A figure moving towards her made the nervous butterflies in her stomach suddenly grow to the gigantic winged horses that pulled the Beauxbaton carriages. Was that a prefect come to give her detention for being outside after curfew? As it drew closer she flashed a nervous smile at what was clearly Aiden. Hopefully he’d take her nerves for worry at being caught rather than the prank she was planning to play. “Hey,” she said quietly “thanks for coming. I wanted to apologise for how I acted last time, I was just shocked.” She hadn’t been shocked, she’d been furious. “I realised afterwards you need water to start the firework, so you couldn’t have set it off on me.” He could have. Willa bet he’d had a wet cloth or something hidden up his sleeve.

“I thought we could have a proper show this time. I got you a replacement firework and one for myself too.” She pulled the glitter tipped fake firework out passing it to Aiden. “I’m going to break a rule as an apology for blaming you for what happened.” Willa gave Aiden what she hoped was an apologetic smile, hoping he wouldn’t see through her deceit.

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Aiden Hunter

Aiden Hunter

Aiden sighed as he walked towards the lake. So now apparently, Willa wanted to meet him with some kind of apology. He didn’t really see what the big deal was. I mean, it wasn’t like it was either of their faults. He figured that it must’ve just been some weird coincidence that set the firework off.

Either way, Willa had asked him to meet her. He approached a shadowy figure that he assumed to be her at the lake. She called out to him and apologized. “Yeah, I guess there really was no way that either of us could’ve set it off. I mean it’s no big deal or anything. Plus, it was actually kinda cool. Could be a fun story in a few years.” He was hoping for some good stories to tell in a few years so that fit the bill perfectly.

“Oh…thanks.” He grabbed the firework from her. “I guess I was kinda a jerk too, so sorry I guess…” He looked at Willa, her smile seemed…off…he decided that it was probably just him though. “I mean I don’t care too much about apologies or anything. I mean what happened, happened. Best to just move on from it, ya know?” He smiled back at her and looked down at his firework, he had to admit that he was getting kind of excited at the prospect of setting it off. “So ready to set these babies off?”